discussion Absolute game drought ?

[whisperpuppy]

Yeah it's a shame but after all the crackdowns and switching laws depending on were you live it's understandable why.

The only viable way will be to make any game+ as a hobby and not advertise anywhere. Then share it anonymously on forums like ours.

Shared with secret handshakes.

 

[kullthebarb]

I wouldn't say the worst, but we are definitely in a huge sink, new games nowdays almost always play safe or take forever to make, there is still a few good ones that come out from time to time, but are scarce

 

[Penitus]

Some people need to get together and figure out a good alternative system to pay/fund the stuff we like without big brother payment processor watching.

 

[blublubloblo]

Very sad to see how freedom of artistic expression is regressing. With AI to express itself in your place and to bring the uninformed attention of the masses to the "abuse" of fictional characters, with filthy tourists infiltrating every niche online space and trying to bend the rules of those spaces to accommodate them, with the unwritten rules of the market nudging creators towards imitation, with credit card companies up to antics similarly evil to those of the Combine, with DLSITE blocking western ip addresses from accessing "problematic" media, with kemono dying... Many circumstances conspire against lovers of erotic art. Strange how killing is more accepted than fucking. So strange.
Considering the poll results, you're not alone in holding the sentiment that this subculture is going through a dry season.
These are dark days. Not just for erotic gaming, but for gaming as a whole. Though regular violence-oriented gaming does have a few lights shining through the darkness, as far as I'm aware, the situation for love-oriented gaming is pure grimdark. I fear darker days await still.
What do you say? Do you believe that brighter days are ahead of us?
As much as I despise nostalgia, I want to reminisce about my days of stumbling upon erotic games, earlier on itch.io's free section, then discovering superdeepthroat and later on finding the goldmine that is fff as a dumb horny teenager and having my mind (and loads) absolutely blown by that new world. Before that, I'd been jerking to hot characters from ps2/ps3 games for years but when I found out that you could play games that were all about sex... What a sense of discovery, of wonder, of euphoria was found there in that new world. I was in love. I was especially enamoured with interactive sex simulators from the start but that subgenre, which has always been somewhat of an underdog (by my perception), has gotten so dry in recent times. Or maybe it hasn't, maybe it still is seeing consistent releases but those are being drowned out by the torrent of shit. Or maybe I'm too specific with my tastes nowadays, once past the initial exploration stage, knowing what to look for closes many doors.

 

[Dingelbarry]

There are some good projects but alot of crap projects out there.

Im not sure if i would call it a drought

 

[mistereme]

Wouldnt say there is a drought, there is, however, a whole lot more very low effort games tho (mainly with ai pics/animations).